Photo from the Library of Congress In their continued campaign to trample institutions and eject expertise from government, the Trump Administration abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden yesterday. Dr. Hayden was the first woman and the first African American Read more >
The theme of the week is tiny beauty. The force is in the details, as they say. So we at Lit Hub are looking closer and looking around. Drew Broussard recommends Colin Dickey’s “Glacial Errata,” a newsletter dedicated to “oddities” Read more >
Last week, hundreds of publishers, theatre companies, symphonies, and community arts programs abruptly lost funding. Beloved institutions from the Bay Area to Harlem were rudely informed of canceled NEA grants last week. And as my colleague James Folta reported in Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, Read more >
Louis C.K., the disgraced comedian, has written a novel called Ingram, set to come out in the fall. If you need a refresher on C.K., Megh Wright’s excellent piece from 2018 lays out the sexual harassment accusations, and why C.K.’s Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short Read more >
Illustrations by E. H. Shepard I’ve been lucky to always be around readers. I had some very good and kind teachers who recommended great books, and I had friends who got to The Lord of The Rings before me, but Read more >
We can celebrate a nice bit of bookstore news this week. Three community rock stars—including self-identified “book girlie” Eve L. Ewing—are joining forces to save an imperiled indie. As Maxwell Evans of Block Club Chicago reports, an impressive trifecta is Read more >
Today, the Griffin Poetry Prize announced Margaret Atwood as the winner of their 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award, which honors “international artists working in poetry.” Atwood will be in conversation with Carolyn Forché at the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings on Read more >
On May 8, 1925—a hundred years ago tomorrow—one of the country’s largest collections of Black arts, literature, and history was born out of a Harlem brownstone. Now called the Schomburg Research Center in honor of the late curator, Arturo Schomburg, Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short Read more >
One of the unexpected joys of parenthood is developing unnecessarily strong opinions about children’s book characters. That’s what happens when you spend hours and hours reading the same words over and over. You have to entertain yourself somehow. Or, I Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short Read more >
A group of American booksellers, publishers, and authors have issued a statement calling for Mosab Abu Toha—the award-winning Palestinian poet, writer, and librarian who was detained and beaten by Israeli forces as he tried to flee Gaza with his young Read more >
May is here, a new month of a year in which all too many days have felt like political Maydays, and yet there’s something reassuring about the weather warming and flowers blooming and days lengthening. For some readers, these are Read more >
Earlier today, the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced and Percival Everett’s James was declared the winner for fiction. (You can see all of the winners and finalists here.) This came as no surprise to anybody even vaguely tapped into the Read more >
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